It's Official - We're A Nation of Chatters, Bus-Driver Thankers & er, Sausage Smugglers!

Ah here, lads. There’s only one thing sillier than my reaction to just about any big change, crisis, or drama being to stick the kettle on for a cuppa (because tea will help you mend that broken heart/bone/dream) and that’s realising that one in two Irish people would do the EXACT same.

Thanks to the people over at Irish Life and their ‘We Know Irish Life’ campaign (you’ll have seen the ads by now, the one where the fella is smuggling the sausimidges through customs), we now know an alarming amount about our at-once eccentric and familiar behaviour on this small-but-mighty island of ours.

For instance, if you have ever smuggled sausages abroad then you are not alone. More than 1 in 5 Irish people have done the very same. Anyone else thinking of the ad where they have all the sausages after a chilly swim in the sea and then they sit about in warm jumpers with tae? THE FEELS.

  • So, so chatty

Turns out we’re very polite and eager to chat, given that 73% of us would ask the taxi driver whether s/he was busy that night. No doubt we’d then all nod along to a rant about the recession / economy / government in the aftermath of such a question.

We also say ‘thank you’ to the driver as we hop off at our bus stop in overwhelming numbers – 93% of those surveyed in fact!

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  • Love, relationships, kids and that
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Some of the statistics – like the fact that over half of Irish parents reckon their little darlings are smarter than yer wan down the road’s whelps – make complete sense. Others surprised me. Like the fact that a mere 5% experienced their first ever shift / score/ meet / kiss / whatever-you’re-having-yourself in the Gaeltacht. Was no one else charmed by the black sacks over the windows to pretend it was night-time? Can this only have been 5% of us?

On a slightly related note, 24% of us have tried the auld online dating, with 40% having a shufti at a promising romantic prospect’s social media profiles ahead of the actual date.

  • High-brows each and every one of us

Keeping things classy, just 29% of us have been to Coppers – or will admit to it, I suspect. 55% of us can pull a pint (but how well, is my question?). 80% have tried the delicacy to beat all others – a crisp sandwich. King or Tayto though?

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  • But this one’s just strange

But oddest, perhaps of all – yes, odder than 1 in 5 allowing their Mam to be their friend on Facebook – is that 18% of Irish people feel like they know… Anne Doyle of all people!

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What do you reckon? Agree? Disagree? Strong feelings about King vs Tayto? To the comments with ye!

 

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